Ramon Perera i Comerma (Barcelona, 1907 – London, 1988), studied at the Barcelona School of Industrial Engineering and was mainly responsible for designing and coordinating the network of air-raid shelters that protected the Catalan population during the Spanish Civil War. As head of plans and works of the Junta de Defensa Passiva de Catalunya, he…
ETSEIB has a long tradition of pioneer female engineers. Isabel de Portugal Trabal Tallada was, in 1949, the first Catalan woman to graduate in Industrial Engineering, and in 1963 the first in Spain to obtain a doctorate in this discipline. Shortly after, Laura Tremosa Bonavía was the second Catalan woman, and the third Spanish, to…
Des de 1851, l’ETSEIB ha tingut una llarga nòmina de directors que han acompanyat l’evolució de l’escola industrial més antiga d’Espanya. El primer d’ells va ser Josep Roura i Estrada, químic català que va introduïr l’enllumenat públic amb gas a Espanya. Entre els directors més rellevants posteriors hi ha Gabriel Ferraté Pascual, figura destacada en…
Throughout its history, Catalan engineering has had figures with exceptional careers who left their mark far beyond their profession. Pompeu Fabra i Poch, an industrial engineer with a chemical background, became the organiser of the modern Catalan language without ever abandoning its technical rigour. Ferran Casablancas Planell, a self-taught technician, revolutionized the world cotton industry…
In 1977, Guillermo Lusa promoted a group to prepare teaching in the history of science at the ETSEIB. Xavier Berenguer, Albert Corominas, Joan Masarnau, Santiago Riera and Antoni Roca participated. Santiago Riera later became professor of history of science at the University of Barcelona. He maintained his link with the ETSEIB when, for example, he…
Among the engineers who made the Barcelona metro possible, two figures stand out. Santiago Rubió Tudurí, who graduated from the School in 1915, was a key figure in the development of Barcelona’s transport structures during the first third of the twentieth century. In 1921 he directed and designed the first metro line to operate in…